Chainreactor – Techno Body Device (Album – ProNoize / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body, Industrial-Techno.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: “Techno Body Device” is the eighth album by Chainreactor. Core member Jens Minor moves on without Kay Schäfer who contributed to several albums and was the singer.
Content: Jens Minor seems to go back to the sources of his project; hard and merciless Techno-Body music for Industrial minds without vocals, but with spoken samplings instead. Pure power songs sometimes driven by hopping sequences and icy sound treatments. The impact of Chainreactor might lead you into trance.
+ + + : This work reminds me of the early years of the project, but the sound became more professional. It’s not a coincidence one of the songs is a revisited version of a song originally released in 2014. This is pure dancefloor-terror, which might appeal for different people although with an Industrial taste. The songs are filled with constant power and raw sound treatments, but I also noticed an inetresting cut right at the end with Acid-driven sequences (cf. “CCPI”). This track injects diversity to the work.
– – – : The sound formula isn’t new at all and only suited for dancefloors.
Conclusion: Chainreactor remains the right sound for underground rave parties; a perverted, dirty and merciless sound.
Best songs: “Sweetheart”, “CCPI”, “Choose Your Weapon 2022”, “Unintentional Presence”, “Universal Salvation”.
Rate: 8½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/Chainreactor
Label: www.darkdimensions.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Dark-Dimensions-Label-Group/486014725206
About Chainreactor
Chainreactor was set up in 2009 by German producer Jens Minor and later joined by Kay Schäfer, who took on vocals. The project mixes industrial, techno, EBM and dark electro into hard, danceable tracks.
All Chainreactor albums have appeared on Pro Noize, part of the Dark Dimensions label group: “X-Tinction” (2009), “Insomniac” (2011), “The Silence & The Noise” (2013), “Mass Driver” (2014), “Dirt” (2015), “Decayed Values” (2017), “Interlinked” (2020) and “Techno Body Device” (2022). “Venom” followed in 2023 and “War Machinery” in 2025.
Minor and Schäfer talked about the move away from sung vocals towards samplings in the ‘Click Interview’ with Chainreactor, published by Side-Line on 11 July 2020. “Techno Body Device” is the first album Minor recorded on his own again.
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